Amino acids

When we eat, we don't just break our pasta down into smaller pieces of pasta and absorb past bits into our cells. The reason we can eat so many different things--unlike koalas, who can only eat eucalyptus--is that our system breaks foods into a few basic types of molecules. Critical are the amino acids, which in turn build proteins, out of which everything in out body is constructed. "Essential" amino acids must be taken in--we cannot make them. The foodies would have you believe that we absorb huge molecules (like modified DNA) directly into our cells--WRONG!! A great exercise would be to identify two or three basic errors of cellular biology in every single foodie press release, including pronouncements from their "scientists"--slam dunk!